Fu Ya was an exiled princess who married three ambitious kings. The first marriage protected her from being executed with her family. The second marriage gave her shelter to heal her broken heart. The third marriage saved her people, but killed the man she loved. Although her husbands loved her, they were equally keen on using her to consolidate power. Their betrayals pushed her to become an avenging angel who would kill anyone in her way.

I loved the trailer, it looks like a very tragic storyline. And I am actually more of a Wallace Huo fan, but looking at the trailer somehwow it looks like Ruby won’t really love him. Btw, is the drama following bbjx? Then again I don’t really want to see it, because I need time gtting bbjx out of my mind before starting another sad and tragic drama.

it’s under “chinese drama” the very first one.
it airs every 11:00 a.m. PST or 2:00 a.m. China time.
you may want to check and see if your pps problem is the newest verison, however pps app for iphone/ipad doesn’t have it.

I have been a fan of Ruby and Wallace for several years already. However, so far this drama has been a disappointment in terms of the progress in its story line. I don’t see the chemistry in the actors nor the climax in each episode. No doubt, everyone in this drama can act. But it has been 14 episodes, and it’s still not drawing me in like NHZGG nor BBJX.

I agree with babypanda that the story development is slow but I have no problem sticking to the story, keeping in mind that the focus is on the palatial struggles and intrigues that eventually shaped the princess. The romance is more of a side dish in this drama…but I am waiting patiently to see Ruby in Wallace’s arms. 😀

I understand the main focus should be on the progress of how Ma Fu Ya becomes who she will be in the future. It’s just seems like a very slow flowing progress so far. Hence, maybe the last 15 episodes is really where the main actions will take place. :-p

can someone answer a question for me? I don’t get why fu ya ‘s
sister/friend went to send a msg to her father? Like the night she found
out that fu ya is the princess why did she write a letter to her dad
telling him that fu ya didn’t die? Is she against fu ya ?

i have seen the episodes from the start but i was sure she did not marry lian zheng. lian zheng was looking for her after the fire broke out in chu’s kingdom and they did not meet after that. Fuya planned to meet him to ask for his help but she saw her cousin who pushed her off the cliff. maybe, she got married in the NOVEL. i heard that the series and the novel are NOT MUCH THE SAME!

It’s 26 eps already and yet the story has not moved to her 1st marriage to Lian Cheng. I’d say that the progress is too slow. I understand the need to create suspense but if it turns into delay, the progression to the ending will be too short and abrupt for 35 eps. Unless this drama is prolonged to 40 eps and above, the 3rd marriage will be so shortly portrayed that it might as well be an afterthought! I am disappointed that they decided to focus so much on the palace politics in Shu kingdom that the development between the female lead and the 3 guys were neglected. Me thinks all 3 guys and their stories deserve equal screen time. Another thing worth mentioning here is that this drama did not fully adopt the novel’s story.

I also seemed to saw the description that the tv version will be 40+ episodes. I hope it will be 40+ because it will end really abruptly at 35. Lianxi is not even having his important role scenes in the Bei han kingdom. I think they focus alot in Shu kingdom because they want to show all these incidents happening really changed the happy go lucky princess to scheming-and-protect-her-own princess. And because of the Shu kingdoms stuff, it will show how really Qiyou and fuya grow their love for each other even though they started out using each other to for their own goals. That’s why fuya cannot be moved by Liancheng and fell in love with him and continue to love. And Anw, it isn’t supposed be Liancheng warring with Qiyou. It supposed to be Lianxi warring with Qiyou, Liancheng supposed to be dead when Shu and Bei han kingdom broke out in war.

I’m glad that it’s not ending at 35. I read the detailed character description and the novel outline on Ruby Lin’s forum and watching this it was practically 80% different…hopefully with more episodes it won’t be such a rapid ending like Aryael was saying above…Lianxi’s story would have been a 2 second story. I do wonder why none of the trailers really show Lianxi though.

Ive just Read abt the total episodes, it will be ard 40 ep instead of 45. I hope the DVD version will have a longer and have extended timescreen because these actresses and actors seriously good in this drama.

As for Lianxi right, he “never really” fall in love with Fuya, but he married Fuya in the end. So there’s not much story abt them. Besides, his story supposed to be the last twist of the novel. So, let’s just wait and see. 🙂

Hahah! I don’t think it is considered as spoilers since they drifted away from the novel’s plot long long time ago. Only the parts in Shu kingdom followed the novel entirely.

Based on the novel, her first marriage with liancheng, her title is call Lady Cheng, her 3rd marriage with Liancheng again call The First Lady (蒂皇妃) and her 2nd husband is Qiyou. (if I’m remembered correctly). So, because Lianxi, the next king of Bei Han, war with Shu kingdom and Shu Kingdom was defeated. So Qiyou as the king of Shu kingdom is imprisoned by Lianxi (similar to the situation we see in the ep in drama now) he want Fuya to be Lady Cheng again and take care of his niece (liancheng and his queen) to exchange for Qiyou’s life.

she was one of his earlier pawns in his plot to regain crown prince status but after fuya got into the picture, she was dropped. however, she obviously fell for him while he fell for fuya. he treated her like a friend, thus his insistence that she leave so she could build a new life.

i think they had an “understanding”. i felt the prince also knew that she had feelings for him. i am not sure whether there was physical intimacy between them though. it was not shown but i think it was “implied” (that’s what i gather) that they had a “relationship”.

Her name is Jingruo..or is it nuo…I think it’s ruo. >.> <.<; Ya, she's rather in love with him, but she understands that she can only ever be his 知己, and she's ok with that. She helped Qiyou with various things during his bid for the throne; like Aryael said, she's something of a pawn, but one that Qiyou respects and cares about as a friend.
Qiyou planned for her to go to this other country and stay with a friend of his, but Jingruo sees it as Qiyou "selling" her to someone else now that he has no more use for her.
The actress who plays Jingruo is a good friend of Ruby's in real life. I haven't read the novel so I don't know if she has a significant role in the later story; but judging from her role so far, she's not really a vital char to the drama. Jingruo's part in this is probably more or less a symbol of friendship and support from Liu Tao to Ruby.

Can someone tell me why Ruby sent a message to the Kingdom Beihan using the Pigeon left by her sister? Also, can you please kindly tell me what the letter said? I’m assuming she forged a letter as her sister, is that correct? thank you

Fuya forged a letter saying that Shu is laying a trap for BeiHan by luring them further into Shu and that Shu actually has a strong army reserve hiding in wait to decimate BeiHan. The Dowager Empress questioned the authenticity of the letter’s contents ’cause she believes Liancheng would see through the trap if there is one – leading her to suspect that Liancheng had ulterior motives. Xiang Yun confirms that Liancheng actually started the campaign because he knew about Fuya’s whereabouts. Which is why Dowager E. was so desperate to summon Liancheng back to BeiHan.

thanks for replying, well, the thing that got me confused was when Lian Xi used needle to hurt his sister, he said something like, he didn’t want to help his sister because her mom is that queen, so it seems that Lian Xi doesnt really like the queen ,then, Lian Cheug is the queen’s son too, then, why Lian Xi helps Lian Cheug…

Hmm.., it is because Liancheng is his only siblings that actually treat him well. The rest of the princes and princesses despises him. That’s why he loves liangcheng very much (as a brother of course) like he can do anything for him, because liangcheng is his only source of sunlight in the darkness. 🙂

is it just me or did anyone else find that the part where lian cheng unmasked fuya was epic? the music, the atmosphere and the convo all lead up to this one epic moment where he unmasked her and then embraced her ever so tightly. wallace can certainly cry and probably the only guy i have found to cry with such pretty tears.

Actually I think ABC is not really an insult or something like that, it is just an abbreviation of American Born Chinese. Though I gotta say ABC in your context is not right, too. Since well, I think it is quite specifically referring to America. Anyway, if you feel offended by the term ABC, the I guess you’re a bit sensitive, but it’s alright, everyone has different opinions…
But JC’s comment is irritating, too. After all, I suppose a lot of other people from other countries including non-speaking english contries do type their comments in English, too, because it’s kind international and this is an english website so it is quite right to comment in English. It wouldn’t make sense if I would start comment in German here, hence, it is true, we ain’t all ABCs here….

OK, I guess I learn something new today (@[email protected]), I didn’t know ABC stand for American Born Chinese , since in JC’s context, she/her was referring ABC to the people who left english comments, so I thought JC was talking about the people from other countries/ english speaking countries–like ABC represents english alphabet, so I thought JC was referring to the people who speak english…and also,if JC really meant American Born Chinese, then she/he thinks all of the people who leave english comments here are from the US!!? (so he/she think only the people from the US speak english?!!)(@[email protected]) I am not American, (I am from canada), so if JC really meant American born Chinese, then, I really can’t say whether it is an insult or not…
but I do believe people should be more careful when they use “short form” to refer to people from specific countries thou..for example, I know many people from pakistan dislike people call them “paki”….
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well, “easier to type” is not a good excuse to call people from other countries names, right?
Particularly when JC managed to type every words in chinese, except that “ABC” which is refering to people from other countries(/english speaking countries)

Apparently, this is an English website, so the audience is English based! It doesnt mean that we are from America!
Also, I do agree that it is easier to type in English. God damn pinyin, I always have to type with my try and error input method XD

OK, it is easier to type in english (for most of the people who are not used to type chinese characters, ie people who grows up in english speaking countries and type in english much more often than chinese etc., but I believe JC is from a chinese speaking country(?) and type in chinese more often than english…but of course, people(who grow up in chinese speaking countries) could find it much easier to type in english too
but whether “typing in english is easier or not”, is not really related to what I said, the problem is not JC is typing the comment in english , it is she/he is calling people from other countries name(“ABC”) and I personally don’t think it is ok to use “easier to type” as an excuse/reason for calling people from other countries names….

I was told that 35 is the DVD. But TV versions tend to be longer (for reasons unknown to me) and that this one will be a total of 42. Besides there’s still so much that hasn’t happened yet that I doubt they’ll finish in one episode tomorrow.

I felt the same two days ago. Then I skipped watching yesterday’s update, so I got to watch 4 new eps today. That, and probably watching the TianTianXiangShang episode with the QingShi cast, made me interested again. *O* I’m thinking that I’ll skip some days this week too, since I have a ton of midterm papers; that should give me ample room to enjoy without feeling the depth of despair everytime they stop on a cliffie.

yep. cuz the king never touched her. hes hurt. but still, he still protects her. =/ i feel so bad for him. yeah he did make a grave mistake in the past but he’s such an ideal husband. when people frame her he takes her side and has the power to protect her well, from the people of the palace. plus he’s hot! ;D

I liked MRXJ, the story felt more put together than QS, probably ’cause they didn’t cut as much. And I really do like Ruby in period dramas, so I found MRXJ to be quite good. If you like Ruby then I’d recommend you watch MRXJ, I think her performance quite swell in it. That drama is more about dynastic succession than romance though; basically details the history of the reigns of almost 4 emperors, through the eyes of the woman who became the first dowager after Empress Lv. Kinda twists what the historical records say in Dou YiFang’s favour, but the scriptwriters do it quite brilliantly. And even though the focus isn’t romance, the (fictional) love between empress Dou and her husband was quite touching. :X
That line “陛下是臣妾的天啊” is sappy but…quite effective in getting to me. ;O;

It is quite true that Ruby looks MUCH prettier in QS. I can overlook the faulty logic of the QS plot ’cause I really enjoy just looking at Ruby, haha. QiYou and LianCheng are good eyecandy, but I applaud Ruby for her ability to steal their spotlight, at least in my eyes. She is about the only female actress who I enjoy looking at as much as I do the guys. xD

Fu Ya and Meng Qi Yao slept together 3? episodes earlier, like a spur of the moment kinda deal.

Personally, I didn’t like that twist there, because how can they just act impulsively when she knows Lian Qiang is out there waiting for her even if she doesn’t like him, she’s still his concubine. It’s like putting a bull’s eye target on yourself and asking the Bei Han Palace to come “kill me”! Definitely not the way to trying to save MQY and herself out of the BH palace.

I think on ep 34 or 35..there was one scene..that FuYa wants the BaiHan princess to save QiYou… and since BaiHan princess likes QiYou, she told FuYa that she can help her.. but she has to become QiYou’s wife first.. so the night FuYa went to BaiGon to try to get QiYou drunk and lied to him…after QiYou was drunk.. FuYa came out to the door, the BaiHan princess was outside.. so they switched.. and BaiHan princess successed slept with QiYou..

I think so too. AFter all, it is fair to have Fuya’s brother becoming king because their kingdom was destroyed by others. God has mercy!!! and I hope to see a happy ending!
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I thought the last king is supposed to be that 小框子 person who became a general and is supposed to be something like the founder of the Song dynasty or something…if I’m not completely butchering Chinese history.

But then again I haven’t watched today’s episodes so I don’t really know which “last king” we’re talking about here.

well, am I the only person who starting to dislike the main couple, I mean she is married to Lian Qiang, yet she slept with another guy and in her husband’s territory too(which is = to your wife/ husband have sex in your house with their lover )..this is just morally wrong…and am I the only person found their” first time” very unromantic…. I mean, they are doing it in a prison house..
well, I can see why they add that part, because they want to make them be each others 1st time since the male lead will sleep with the princess later on….but still, I am really starting to dislike the main couple because of that…
and also, the princess is not “evil” like the queen, and she did a lot for him,.. and see how the male lead treats her, does he even feel bad to treat a girl like that…( i know he doesn’t like her, but, she saved his life and all that, and shouldnt him at least feel a but thankful or something…)

u say that cuz you’ve seen the princess’s side. but if u put ur shoes in qi yongs… shes just a spoiled princess who smacks him around and loves to watch him suffer as she toys with him. plus he never wanted to sleep with her.

ya sure, she is a spoiled, bratty princess who smacks him around and toys with him, and he never wanted her, but no matter what she saved his life, if not for her, he wouldn’t even be alive and got to see Fu ya again…right? shouldn’t he at least feel a bit thankful for that…

Saving someone’s life does not mean that you owe that person your life nor you become that person’s slave. People do things to help other should be from their good needs. If someone helps you and asks you to return his favor. Then this person does not have a good intention in saving someone in the first place! This is how I think!!! Loving and Saving someone’s life is two different things!

If you think about it from their point of view, what if they never got out of there? What if they died there? Wouldn’t you want to have no regrets in case you die in enemy territory?

As for the princess, I don’t really see how she saved him. Every thing I see her do is for her own goals. She hated him at first and caused him suffering. Stabbed him at the camp and in the prison had him fight 3 guys while being chained to a wall. Stole the jade that she knew meant a lot to him and then tricked him into sleeping with her. To be honest I find his reaction to be completely understandable and logical. She’s not evil but she’s not exactly someone who stirs up my compassion either.

ya, I can see why they did it, but how does it make it “less” morally wrong…? just becauce people are dying or scared of dying with regrets…doesnt mean it is ok for them to do something that are wrong….and hurt other peoples feelings(in this case would be Lian Qiang’s)..right? ^^;

how she saved him..you remember she put the power into the drink and she carried him to leave the palace…
and of course she is not doing all this just for him and she is doing this for herself too, but ….she did risk a lot of things to save him right….(well, just want to say, I am not a fan of her thou)

Well don’t forget Lian Qiang basically ruined Fuya’s previous life with her family and caused her quite a bit of suffering. Not that she knew it at the time. She also expressed from the very beginning back in her hometown that she didn’t like him that way and again when she married him. He kept her and her lover anyways, gave her freedom to go see him, now this might be a modern perspective of mine but isn’t that asking for trouble?

Sorry I hadn’t watched today’s episode when I wrote that. I suppose she did, even though Fuya was the one who begged the lord to help her, and gave him the powder. I think the lord guy could have easily hired someone else to take the role of the princess if she wanted to stay home and take care of her elderly mother. I feel like she’s another version of Lian Qian’s queen.

ya, of course I remember he ruined Fuya’s previous life, killed her father indirectly and all that, but how does it have anything to do with the fact that Fuya slept with Qi You when she was married to another person..?(and also, as you’ve mentioned already, she found out after, right?)
ya, she did express really clearly that she did not love him, but she was the one who agreed to to marry him and became his wife, so she should take the “responsibility” as someones wife(and the decision she made) right?(again, how does tha fact that”she doesn’t love him” make it less morally wrong for them to have sex?)
Lian Qiang did let her saw Qi You once (while Lian Qiang was there) but I don’t recall Lian Qiang gave her the freedom to go see him by herself ….. I thought they tricked the princess to give her the premission to see him (and Lian Qiang didn’t know about it….)

ya, Fuya did help him too and so both Fuya and the princess( and the lord) togther saved his life, so ya, Qi You should be thankful to all of them.

the lord guy could have hired someone else to help Qi You out instead, but he didn’t so we never know if it would work out too if the princess didn’t help, and since we didn’t see the entire “process” of how they managed to help him out so there may also be a possibility that she actually used some connection as a princess too, but we never know, if we just keep guessing what happen if this and that ,then there are really, many possibilities out there, so why don’t we just stick with the fact—she helped him out.

I don’t think she is another version of Lian Qiang’s queen (at least,at the moment) I see her more as a spoiled bratty princess who are not good at interacting with people other than her servants, people who do not do what she wants them to.

No, you’re certainly not the only one wreaking havoc over “morality” issues. Morality is a subjective thing however. Certainly you have a right to think FuYa is immoral by sleeping with QiYou, and LianCheng may think the same, because you both view FuYa as LianCheng’s wife. But despite the 和亲 thing, I highly doubt either FuYa or QiYou really sees her as being LianCheng’s wife. Besides LianCheng and FuYa not having any sort of physical relationship whatsoever, we also never even see a ceremony of any sort, only LianCheng announcing that he has accepted princess DiLian as his concubine. Yes, LianCheng loves Fuya, and it is a cruel thing for him to find out that she not only gave her heart to another man, but her body as well; but FuYa DID confess to LianCheng forthright that QiYou is the one she loves, the one that she will forsake life for, if only to accompany him on the road of death. As to the matter of location, certainly it adds to LianCheng’s pain – I’m sure FuYa and QiYou would’ve chosen somewhere OUT of LianCheng’s domain, if they had been able. Truth is they didn’t know if they would ever leave BeiHan.

FuYa’s morality is a hard case to argue – would she even care if people think her immoral, when QiYou is the person she places above even her life? Would she lament the sacrifice of her morality for QiYou when she’s already come to terms with sacrificing her life for him? I don’t think she would, so all we are really doing is wasting our breath debating a non-issue. You’re entitled to your opinion, we are to ours. As for “ancient standards,” Song dynasty, the one about to come into existence, was the beginning of sexual prudeness – the beginning of a Chinese “Victorian era mentality” if you will. Tang was still quite open, and I imagine 五代十国 probably doesn’t defer too far from Tang, in terms of sexual openness.

As to QiYou’s treatment of LianSi…hmm…certainly I don’t condone his actions, just like I shouldn’t condone LianCheng’s violent outbursts towards XiangYun…yet like many have remarked already, I don’t find myself in a terrible outrage though I recognize the exhibitions of domestic violence. Uh…I’ll just say that it’s in character for both QiYou and LianCheng to act thus – so remember girls, when you meet guys like QiYou and LianCheng, who make it amply clear to you that you’re not his FuYa – don’t be stupid like XiangYun and LianSi now. You deserve better! A hot husband isn’t necessarily the best husband.

Ok, this is where I exit. Endured this drama this long to see Wallace in action and now that he is out of the action, no point continuing as the story is really weak. And yes, I agree, this drama deviated a lot from the sensational novel. One wonders why Ruby would bother spending money buying the rights of the novel when she hardly follows the novel at all. There is a reason why the novel’s so popular and she should have stuck to the novel’s story. This drama = disappointment.

Not that this drama didn’t have its good points initially but I agree, if the story is so different I don’t really see the point in ruby spending a fortune it. I went from following this drama like crazy to being like…ehhh…it’s okay. =( Yet I really shouldn’t complain all that much bc BuBuJingXin followed the novel almost all the way and I cried my eyes out.

but if they follow the novel, they will not be able to finish by episode 42 or 48. D: So my guess Ruby’s take is to reduce the complication in the original storyline and make all the good plots stronger in the drama. But I personally think the changes is good but why she never change Liancheng’s death to later episode? At least that motivates me to watch. D:

As a fan of Wallace, I don’t understand why he took the part as Lian Qiang. (I know Ruby said it once in an interview that she begged Wallace 3 times before he agreed to take the part.) He does a super job in portraying the tragic lovestruck king who did everything he can to get to his first love. But I don’t see how the story line fully developed his character. Ratings might last longer and higher if he’s the main lead.

Hmmm. Do you mean if Wallace played QiYou? Or if LianCheng became FuYa’s love interest?

Wallace doesn’t really have the QiYou feel to me, but he makes an impressive LianCheng imo. As for the storyline, I think the author of the original novel was going for a kind of “somethings in life can’t be helped” feeling. I’ve not read the novel, but I do believe having LianCheng as FuYa’s father’s killer is an innovation purely for the drama adaptation, in attempt to justify why FuYa won’t love the poor, lovestruck man.

I actually anticipated the drama cheering for LianCheng too, purely based on the trailer scenes, but I have to admit that QiYou eventually won me over. I still think though, that a threesome would be the most satisfactory ending. >: But I guess…when is life ever perfect?

And, you answered your own question: “He does a super job in portraying the tragic lovestruck king who did everything he can to get to his first love.” Besides his innate LianCheng-ness, it’s also as you said, friendship reasons.

I know it’s upsetting how reduced LianCheng – a character with so much potential – became, but it’s no less to Wallace’s credit how well he portrayed that character, and even more so that he agreed out of friendship. Why not be proud, as a fan, that he’s a person willing to go to such length for friends? This is actually my first time seeing Wallace in a drama, since I don’t watch very many Cdramas, and I’m very grateful to him for fleshing out such an ideal LianCheng, though the script skimped out on his character.

does anyone think whether fu ya has ever loved lien cheng? because she did not respond when he asked her that question(at fuya’s “supposed tombscene”). if she doesn’t, why cry so forlornly when lien cheng got hit by a flying spear? was she only crying out of pity for him?

I second the notion. Besides, Fuya did say that she “owes” Liancheng for all his love and unconditional acceptance of her. He did her a great wrong by killing her father and all, but it doesn’t erase all that he has done for her – most especially his unfortunate, but unquestionable love for her.

In the drama, I think she did love Liancheng (please rewind to the part where she want to wipe away his perspires after she actually go to bed with Qiyou, which I personally think that that’s really ironic.), she care about him more than she realises. She loves him less than Qiyou that’s all. Furthermore, she already forbidden herself to continue to feel “that way” after she know her country and dad were dear because of him.

In the novel, yes, she did. I mean, how can she not to when someone who cared so much about her and patch her broken heart (after feeling betrayed by Qiyou)? But the author did explicitly says she did love him in a romantic way. (just so you know).

for me, i consider qi you to be fuya’s first husband because they were already a couple going to get married soon, if not for the war that lien cheng waged against shu county. lien cheng was flabbergasted when he knew of her “infidelity” but did not blame her because in his heart, he knew it was he who tore them apart. when qi you was handed a death sentence for ‘adultery”, he answered, ” what adultery? she is my wife!”. i consider lien cheng as fuya’s second husband. this is based on what i have seen so far in this series, not the book. i haven’t read the book, so i don’t know how far different did the author portray the different characters.maybe, fuya was engaged to lien cheng in the book. if that is the case,then i will consider lien cheng as the first husband.

i think he was pissed that the king was forcing her to marry someone she dislikes. so in a way… he was trying to prevent her from marrying anyone else. he originally thought she would hate the father… but when he asked… he just realized how important her father was to her. =/ (in a way he did it for her… so she can marry whom ever she chooses but ironically it made her worse)

from the trailers, seemed like fuya lost her baby. her little brother was planning to kill the baby, thinking he was qiyou’s baby.i can’t understand his hate towards qiyou. maybe the series edited so much about the little brother’s part because i still don’t KNOW why he hated qiyou.does anyone here know???

is the title of the book the same as the series, Qing shi huang fei?
i have watched the latest episode via home cable subscription. what i can’t make out is why fuya’s little brother, a beihan military general, hated qi you so much. there was no indication in the series being played that he meted an injustice to the little brother. what was the reason for the hate?from the trailers i gathered that the little brother sowed misunderstanding and discord between fuya and qiyou that the latter wanted to kill him.

My personal take is this guy is pretty much twisted as lianxi after all the years of torture. He just want to be the king of the country so, his rivals are liancheng, qiyou and etc whoever will stand at his way. I think the last ep is quite predictable & probably answer your doubts because I was doubting why Duyun becomes king too.

The reason why I started to watch this show is because I like stories about revenge …..and I want to see how the female lead turns into an ” avenging angel” but instead, Rudy changed the story into a romance( and I personally don’t even find romance between Qi you and Fuyas that romantic at all)…and the female is still the same(almost) as before, everyone like bullying her and she never get back to anybody….(beside lian cheng once)

my only reason why I am still watching this drama is because I don’t like leaving drama unfinished(and since I ve watched like 30+ ep already, I might well just finish it)

Aki, I gotta agree with you. I’m sticking around to see this end too. The drama really disappointed me. The romance wasn’t all that romantic, none of the characters have any chance at redemption, good characters met bad endings, the evil ones were way too evil. Even the crying moments…where I’m supposed to feel sad and bawling..I’m kinda like…oh well that sucks instead. Ditto about the summary too…It appears they are going to take Fuya from being way super naive to the super evil over night when they had a chance in 40 episodes to at least let her learn from her mistakes and slowly show the evolution of her character… (sigh)

i found the men’s love for fuya DEEP . i can’t say that of fuya however.qiyou specially wanted fuya to believe in him. FUYA had doubts of her husband(which i hated because of qiyou’s deep love for her). i am quite sad if this story turns into a TRAGEDY. it was quite a relief that wallace and yang kuan accepted their respective roles because i can’t imagine them exchanging roles to each other. Both roles fitted them so well!

i saw the trailer and i was so sad to see qiyou got killed. tonight’s episode showed the reason why fuya’s brother hated qiyou. it was never shown in the series that the brother had unrequited love towards lienxi. thought he was only following the orders of his superior, princess lienxi.i found the revelation too sudden to my liking.one more thing i don’t like in the story is why fuya would easily believe her brother than her husband after going through so many hardships and fuya’s faith towards her husband was tested and found wanting.2) why fuya didn’t make a more potent poison which can claim the evil grand concubine’s life in just a few minutes.this enough time will give the evil woman more room to fulfill more evil deeds.3) the karmic debts of the bad people would only be tackled in the last epiisode. will i find that satisfying?
overall, i LOVE the story, the music and their acting. a recommended show for everyone. i still don’t know how this will end but this series has already made a lasting impression on me.

one more thing to add: fuya’s lady in waiting/servant commented that qiyou was not getting better after drinking fuya’s medicine. WHY didn’t fuya ever suspect anything wrong, her being an excellent healer at that! i THINK her brother was slowly poisoning qiyou because he had revised the medicine prescription of FUYA to treat qiyou’s illness.(it didn’t mention what disease he has, only he is getting sicker)

maybe she does suspect but did not show.
Im sure she doesnt really believe the king killed her child. she’s just following the plans of the evil plot to lure out the real mastermind. she doesnt know who, that’s why she went after both the other princess and the old concubine. She didnt lay her hands on the king. I think she also knows that her brother was the one that killed the baby. that’s why she’s trying to take the blame.

Ruby’s smart. everything she does… has its point. Unless im giving her too much credit. but we’ll see tomorrow.

i have a feeling her brother will eventually die in her hands. Probably cuz qiyo’s death has something to do with the brother. and im sure she’s gonna remember her brother’s hands squeezing her belly.

I only watched this show cause of Ruby lin and Wallace Huo.. I was disappointed in this story cause the synopsis was very different from what the story is about.. but great job to the actors and actresses who acted in this show, its not easy

i give this series a 4STAR. i was so touched by the love shown by qiyou and lien cheng for fuya> how could fuya have little faith in her husband?sould she not investigate who caused the death of her mother? how could she just assume the lies fabricated by her brother. she had been far apart from her long lost brother and she assumed him to be “innocent” and “guileless”. that’s the weak part of her character.

You are right, it was a somewhat of a disappointment seeing as she was smart throughout the whole series up until that part and QiYou on his part had never doubted her. However, I do give credits to the writer for putting in flaws in her character so that us as the viewer can feel differently for her and see her in a different light. In her defense, she had lost her baby and seeing that family are so important to her, it maybe hard for her to start doubting her brother and seeing as that jerk of a brother is manipulative and constantly misleading her. As you had said which you are absolutely right, these are her weak points which is a part of her character. At this point of the story, we see that she can no longer maintain a clear conscience and for everything that she has been through, deaths after deaths, she has finally fallen apart once again.

its one of those ambiguous ending where the viewer determined whether the glass is half empty or half full. she had said at the end that she will no longer seek death and that she will survive so someone can say, she lives positively for the sake of all who loves her and wanted her to live on and that Qi You will live on happily with her through her memories. although its an ending that many would not had hope for, its overall not a bad ending as it convey a positive message.

did she say that she wouldn’t kill herself? i’d like to watch that. i think i am going to re=watch the last episode because in my opinion, she already has LOST her loved ones and she has no reason to live anymore. taht would be more dramatic and i think in those times, it is NOT a sin to commit suicide(only catholics consider suicide to be a sin, am i right? i don’t know about buddhists though)

Yes you are right, in those days women are not as liberated as modern society and to commit suicide may seem ideal to a woman who has lost everything. As you know, the scriptwriters pretty much altered a lot of the story lines and I believed they just wanted to incorporate a more positive or open endings where viewers be the judge of how they want the ending to be.

I had just re-watched the final scene of the last episode, she had stated that “i will no longer give up my life in hopes to seek the next life. Because as long as I am still living, we won’t…” I couldn’t make out the last few words as the flute music started to overwhelmed her voice lol. However, I am having a friend who knows how to read chinese to translate it for me. =)

i have re-watched the last part. and yeah, you’re right. at first, she intended to commit suicide( when the zhou general asked her where she was going, she said”to accompany your brother(qiyou)”). but then in later scenes, she said” i have abandoned seeking to end my life because as long as i live, we will never be apart.” that means, she can still reminisce memories of qiyou and her during their happier times. that way, qi you is still living like he never has died.

Ah yes, thank you Miriam! That is the best translation as it can be. I was able to make out the words in spite of the flute music after reading your translation. In a way, I am glad she decided to live on so that Qi You will not be forgotten. As you said, that is how Qi You can remain in her memories and to live on with her.

many people got killed in the last episode! at least fuya got the nerve to revenge all the deaths(she DID not know her brother’s real character until the end. that was one of the 2 WEAK points i found in her character, the other is not being there for her husband ALL THE WAY). qiyou is always there for her, defending her against malicious rumors and attack to her honor so i reallyCRIED when she decided to leave qiyou.( i like yan kuan’s(qiyou) and wallace’s(lien cheng) acting here, SO GOOD)

I think it has an ambiguous ending so that viewers can think whatever ending that they want to have. Seriously, i think there might be a miracle in this movie so that Qi You alive again. When he falls into the river, it is not sure that he is dead! someone might rescue him ect…ect…

i am advising those who don’t want spoilers not to read the comments here before watching the whole drama series. it is hard not to have divulged on what had happened because we are commenting/discussing on something we had already seen.

An enjoyable series. I think the sub-genre should have been “suffering” instead of romance. Liked the cast, enjoyed most of the series. Cried at some scenes. Although I really wanted a happily ever after, this ending was … I really hated it but know that is how it had to be. It was supposed to be sad, and that is how I felt. Ruby Lin and Yan Kuan <3

didn’t lienxi ever suspected that it was a-nu(fuya’s brother and lienxi’s disciple) who gave him the “poison curse” which had no antidote except to pass it on to someone else and that person dies instead of him? or maybe he just let it go and is leading a NEW life of no poisoning/killing?

If you are thinking about watching this show and are expecting it to follow the book, don’t bother.
This is so different from the book, it’s utter nonsense to bear the same name.
And overall, a very disappointing show.

It is not necessary for a TV drama or movie to follow exactly the novel from which the drama pr movie is based on.
Disappointing??? Individual taste. Watching drama or movie is merely for entertainment, not to be taken too seriously.
As the saying goes, “Actors/actresses are crazy, those who watch are fools.”

not bad of a drama, its very cute at the beginning but after episode 20-ish its just not that exciting anymore…too much poisoning and drama going on, and i wasn’t even that sad at the end because the “cute” factor of the couple totally wore off, and they are just tragic and sad…

omg.. why does the latest series around all have such horrible endings. All their smarts turn into dumb blindness towards the end. And they basically killed everyone. We need to have a emo-warning for series like this so we don’t have to waste our time.

I had high hopes for this drama given the description but like some
comments before me it was a disappointment. Like any other historical
mainland drama it’s full of schemes, tears, and hotness (from the Yan Kuan & Wallace Huo)!

Ruby Lin’s character doesn’t become an “avenging angel”. I really was
routing for her to become this strong woman throughout this drama but there were times when I
was annoyed by her clueness. And I know that even though she didn’t love
Lian Chen-how could she have slept with Qi You in LC’s kingdom when she
was married to LC?! AND you want us viewers to sympathize with her?Moving on…it told go on & on.

It’s too bad that Fu Ya & Lian Chen didn’t end up together. Yes, I
know that both guys both hurted her and both had sad stories but I saw
that LC’s love for her was truly genuine & I believe that she would had loved him in return.

I gotta say that Ruby Lin (her acting has always been ok to me) was overshadowed
by her two male co-stars. At the end of watching the drama, the guys
left life a stronger impression on me ..but KUDOS to Wallace Huo who surprised me the most!

where can i read the book?which has been translated into english, or may be anyone could really tell me whats really in the book.the ending of this drama is really sad, jus hoping to know the real version of this story from the novel.

Weird things noted from the drama.
1. Fu Ya worrying about the vow made under the
name of Pan Yu.

2. Knowing that Concubine Han poisoned her
mother and not giving her the antidote, she still
allow her to live to cause the death of her
mother. She has enough evidence to get her
husband the emperor Qi You to put the death.

3. Odd that Eunuch Hua as one who knows
tradition Chinese medicine does not know that
when sucking poison out from the victim, the
poison should be spat out.

The drama is watchable. But the make-up artist still have room for improvement especially when making the characters looked their age. The script writer for the drama also have plenty of room for improvement.

Watched the drama recently though it is a bit late. In short, all the three main characters acted well. I felt that I have to give some credit to Yan Kuan for making a big impression in the drama. Probably because of the Qi You character buildup from being neglected, cold, introvert and keeping all the pain to himself to someone with hope, love and care.

Storyline was interesting and I do agree that the ending could have been better.